Cornbread

About the Book

More charming stories of a boy growing up in the sand hills of Louisiana during the Great Depression and how to survive in the midst of a time without cash but with food a plenty.

About the Author

Thomas Ard Sylvest was born in Provencal, Louisiana in Natchitoches Parish in 1925. He graduated from Provencal High School at the age of 16 and enrolled at Louisiana State University in 1942. He attended LSU for one year prior to entering the service during World War II. He served on Guam and Iwo Jima in the Army Air Corps as a member of the 302nd Fighter Control Squadron. After World War II, he returned to LSU and graduated with a degree in Agricultural Economics. Sylvest married Eloise Marie Therese Sobert on August 5, 1953 in Abbeville, Louisiana. They settled in Gramercy, Louisiana in 1968 and have lived there ever since. They have seven children, as well as multiple grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Thomas Sylvest is the author of Collard Greens: Growing up on a Subsistence Sandhill Farm during the Great Depression.